Head of Platform

1 month ago


Toronto, Canada Gorgias Full time

Gorgias empowers ecommerce brands to grow through AI-powered customer experience. We are the #1 CX platform in the industry, trusted by over 15,000 merchants worldwide - from small independent shops to some of the largest ecommerce brands in the world.

We offer the most integrations of any tool on Shopify (100+) and the ability to get setup fast, without the need for complex onboarding. Gorgias offers its users a unified platform to manage every aspect of their customer support on every channel.

We can automate 60% of a brand’s support so that agents can focus on high-value conversations and driving sales. Plus, we offer purpose-built marketing tools to help merchants convert more shoppers into customers, driving GMV.

**About the Team**:
Platform engineering team’s mission is to empower product engineering teams by providing reliable core APIs, documentation, developer experience, managed services, templates and best practices. The success depends on the success of the product engineering team success. Your hard work enables product engineering teams to build great customer-facing products.

**Who they are: Team members**:
**Their Stack (for engineering roles)**:
Languages used:

- Python (backend) & TypeScript (frontend)
- Java (Flink jobs)
- Databases:

- Postgres is our main workhorse streams CDC pipeline feeding other services.
- ElasticSearch is used for full-text search.
- Clickhouse for OLAP workloads.
- Streaming:

- RabbitMQ
- Debezium
- Apicurio
- Kafka
- Flink/FlinkSQL/KafkaConnect

**What You’ll Do**:

- Work with large SaaS code bases that span across multiple services.
- Streaming data pipelines: Kafka & Flink.
- Advanced analytics workloads on top of Clickhouse and Cube.
- Software architecture design and review experience with close collaboration of Staff/principal engineers.

**Who You Are**:

- Years of software engineering experience: 15+
- Experience as Director: 2y minimum
- Experience as Senior Software engineer: 7y minimum, ideally 10y+
- Technologies: Python, Java (Flink), Typescript, Postgres, Kafka.
- Background: Has been a senior software engineer in the past.

**Nice to haves**:

- Clickhouse
- ElasticSearch
- Temporal or other Durable Execution Frameworks.

**Perks & Benefits**:

- 5-week vacation
- Paid sick leave
- 6 weeks full remote/year
- Paid parental leave (16 weeks)
- MacBook Pro
- Monthly lunch stipend of $300
- Health insurance with up to 100% of premiums paid for employees - Anthem explore our plans
- Retirement: Gorgias contributes to your 401k 100% of the first 3% of deferred W-2 income, 50% of the next 2% of deferred W-2 income.
- Get up to $700 to set up your workstation at home (working from home should feel breezy)
- Get up to $2000 of learning material and wellness support per year This includes $1500 for learning material (such as books, courses, and individual coaching sessions) directly linked to your job scope, as well as a $500 wellness budget. Take advantage of these resources to grow in your role and prioritize your personal development and wellness.
- Every quarter, we organize an online company-wide summit to discuss where we’re going and strengthen social bonds. Once per year, we organize offsite team retreats and company retreats

**More cool things to know about Gorgias...**:

- Raised our Series C-2 for $29M in May 2024: Article Here
- We went from 0 to 15,000+ merchants using our platform since 2016
- We have a 4.3 rating on Glassdoor & 4.7 Comparably culture score
- Discover the Gorgias Platform
- Learn about our Compensation Policy

Compensation Range: $272.9K - $334.2K


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